posted at 5:34 pm on November 29, 2006 by Allahpundit

Because if you can’t laugh at the misfortune of vicious racists, whose misfortune can you laugh at?

What I said the other day about him maybe having a screw loose might be closer to the mark than I thought. The aftershock about him claiming to be Jewish when he really isn’t is odd, too. Maybe he’s just lying to get cover for the anti-semitic things he said to hecklers earlier this year, but I wouldn’t put this sort of kookiness past him:

“Technically, not having been born by blood as Jewish and not formally going into a conversion, it was purely his interpretation of having adopted Judaism as his religion,” Rubenstein told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “He told me, ‘I’m Jewish,’ when I asked him.

“He said there were two mentors who raised him and who had a big influence on his life, and they were Jewish. He said, ‘I agree with the concepts and the religious beliefs of Judaism and I’ve adopted Judaism as my religion,”’ Rubenstein said. “He really thinks of himself as Jewish.”

The new Season 7 DVD is selling like hotcakes, by the way — up 75% over Season 6. Short of child abuse, there’s no such thing as bad publicity in America.

Short of child abuse, there’s no such thing as bad publicity in America.

…give it time…the Dems have the keys to the Capitol for the next two years….

“Congressman Pedo,” intones the judge, “why were you on the schoolyard, naked under a raincoat, standing by that water fountain, exposing yourself to those fourth graders?”

“Well, Your Honor, everybody does it…and lies to their wife about it…and lies to grand juries about it…and uses their party connections and media-induced overexposed voter apathy to beat impeachment about it…besides…I was just expressing myself. Don’t hate th’ playa….”

Holy crap! My Seinfeld knowledge faaaaaaaaar excedes that of anyone I know, but this guy is a genius. How did he find all the clips of Kramer interacting with black people? I mean, I can see just randomly remembering him saying other things and being able to dig them up and fit them in this video.. but finding all those rare clips of black people on Seinfeld… the mind that created this is terrifying, yet hilarious. This is an instant classic.

From the Stern Show, Sam Simon, the director, says…
A one time, Kramer said he would kill him… “I’d do the time, I won a gun…”

DEALING WITH KRAMER FIRSTHAND
Sam Simon called in to tell some his stories about working with Michael Richards. For starters, Sam said he directed an episode of “The Michael Richards Show” in 2000, and it was at this time that he found out Michael was “the most difficult celebrity” he’d ever worked with in his life. Sam next claimed Michael threatened someone else on the show, and threw a script at his head at one point as well. Sam went on to report Michael even quit the show one day as it was taping, and wouldn’t come back to the set until the president of the network begged him to reconsider his decision. Based on all this, Sam felt people finally got to see the “real Michael” in the comedy club clip that came out last week. Sam also added that Michael was the only major “Seinfeld” cast member who wasn’t included in the show’s creative process.